Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-01
MORE ANARCHIST sYMPATHIzERs.

And now we have Unitarian clergy
man Of Chicago urging from the pulpit
that the Anarchist mErderers should not
be hanged. He advances as reason that
the Anarchist is the product Of European
tyranny, aud is therefore of different
order of criminals from ordinary mHrderers
This is wildly strange doctrine to come
from an American pulpit. This gentleman
of the cloth would erect mountaineering by
Anarchists into political crime. The in
slant that is done, farewell to free govern
ment; it will be the first step to limita-
tions the extent of which will depend
only upon legislative and party whims.
These Haymarket takers of human life
have been treated simply as offenders
against the law prohibiting the killing of
human beings They were tried as ordi-
nary criminals and as such convicted
The laws of the land, as now framed, are
equal to the task of visiting punishment
upon such offenders. To erect special stat
utes to meet such cases will be the first step
toward the abandonment of the funda-
mental principles of the Republic. The
reverend apologist for murderers declares
that venality and corruption in American
politics and society make Anarchists, and
that aggregated capital ignoring the laws,
results in the Parsons, Lingg, Fielden
kind of assassins, who should therefore be
excused. This is rot of the unadulterated
order. There is not among the condemned
at Chicago a single native-born American,
and many of the gang Of which they
are leaders are not even citizens,
while each and all of them began
their assaults upon society before
they took any steps looking toward citizen
ship, and without solitary cause for COM
plant against society. They are possibly
inspired somewhat by their ideas of wrongs
perpetratsd by kings and princes in
Europe, but are mainly actuated by hatred
of conditions of peace, order and sobriety,
that involve industry and obedience to
the law. The restraint of the law, indeed,
is to them sufficient reason for their cru
sades against any form of government that
imposes obligations and inficts punish
ments. They struck at the sovereignty of
every American citizen when they muir
dered the representative servants of that
sovereignty, who, as peace officers, were
executing the will of the people. They
prepared dynamite bombs for the express
purpose of killing human beings, and
carried them to the Haymarket meeting
with intent to do murder. They have
been found guilty according to and under
the law, to which all men in America are
amenable, and should be hanged decently
in vindication Of the law, and as a warning
to all others who have the temerity to
employ against free government the agen-
cies that European assassins use against
a ruling class. The citizens who apologize
for them, or excuse their methods. are
either sickly sentimentalists or insincere in
their ayowed devotion to American insti-
tutions. If Governor Oglesby is the same
man in old age that he was in the DAYS
when rebellion assailed an inseparable
union of sovereign States he Will send the
Unitarian committee that goes to him to
petition for the pardon of Parsons and his
fellow-murderers about its business with
singing rebuke that will find a responsive
echo in every true Americans heart.